Word: pinkos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predominantly a gathering of oldsters, the General Convention had among its lay delegates many a banker, lawyer, substantial businessman. A straw vote of conventioneers gave Willkie 974 votes, Roosevelt 560, Norman Thomas six. But well attended were the meetings of the pinko Church League for Industrial Democracy. Among its speakers were C. I. O. President John L. Lewis, American Youth Congress Chairman Jack McMichael (a lusty young radical now preparing for the ministry at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary), Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...
About the same time it was decided that tousle-headed, slow-spoken, walrus-mustached National Director Henry Alsberg seemed a little too pinko, talked a little too much about his indigestion, was a little too slow in getting production started on the Guide Books and other projects. He retired from WPA. Alsberg and colleagues had started out to produce great Art. Congress by & large preferred results...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...last of these, The Prodigal Parents, took a beating even from reviewers who recognized Lewis as still the most important novelist in the U. S. It was a wayward, shallow, cantankerous mummery in which Lewis exalted the wisdom of a motor dealer at the expense of his stupidly pinko kids...